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Javascript for Reviews?

by abundantliving
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Help! ... if you can. I know we have some techies in here... I need you.

I want to use a javascript to add published reviews to my clients' sites so they don't show as duplicates to the SEs. None of the ready-made solutions are flexible enough to pull live reviews from all the sites I need. Even if I need to copy/paste each review into the javascript (instead of it pulling live from a website), that's okay... the key is... it must be a javascript so SEs don't view the reviews as duplicates.

Here's where you techies come in... how do I write a javascript that will simply allow me to show reviews I've copied and pasted into it to website visitors without showing them to SEs? Is it hard to do? Am I asking too much? Or is there something already out there I can use?
#javascript #reviews
  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Originally Posted by abundantliving View Post

    Help! ... if you can. I know we have some techies in here... I need you.

    I want to use a javascript to add published reviews to my clients' sites so they don't show as duplicates to the SEs. None of the ready-made solutions are flexible enough to pull live reviews from all the sites I need. Even if I need to copy/paste each review into the javascript (instead of it pulling live from a website), that's okay... the key is... it must be a javascript so SEs don't view the reviews as duplicates.

    Here's where you techies come in... how do I write a javascript that will simply allow me to show reviews I've copied and pasted into it to website visitors without showing them to SEs? Is it hard to do? Am I asking too much? Or is there something already out there I can use?
    What's the issue with search engines seeing the reviews? So long as they are just part of your content then I don't see the big fuss. Duplicate content is when you have the SAME content published more than once on the SAME website. Having the same content on different sites is just syndicated content and shouldn't get you penalized. There are plenty of valid reasons for syndicated content such as your use. News websites syndicate content every single day of the week.

    By the way, javascript doesn't mean search engines won't see the reviews. Javascript is just one form of programming language to execute specific tasks. Whether you use javascript, php, or something else, the visibility of the reviews is not down to the programming language used but how the feed is programmed to work.
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  • Profile picture of the author abundantliving
    See where not being a techie got me?

    I have been told over and over that you don't want to post the reviews on client's site in regular text b/c SEs will view as duplicate content. However, I've been told that by people trying to sell javascript programs that pull reviews in from specific sites.

    Also, I've been told (by those same people) that javascript hides the text inside from SEs.

    Guess I've been told wrong. Thanks for setting me straight. This makes things much simpler.
    :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author WillR
      Originally Posted by abundantliving View Post

      See where not being a techie got me?

      I have been told over and over that you don't want to post the reviews on client's site in regular text b/c SEs will view as duplicate content. However, I've been told that by people trying to sell javascript programs that pull reviews in from specific sites.

      Also, I've been told (by those same people) that javascript hides the text inside from SEs.

      Guess I've been told wrong. Thanks for setting me straight. This makes things much simpler.
      :-)
      Javascript will not create search engine friendly text most of the times I believe. The reason being that javascript is a client side script that appears as a webpage is loading so the content usually doesn't form part of the actual page. PHP however is a server side script so you can pull that content into a site and that content becomes part of the page before it displays to the user.

      I'm not a fantastic programmer either but that is my understanding from my experience with both those programming languages.

      But I really don't see you having any issues using reviews on your site anyway.
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      Originally Posted by abundantliving View Post


      Also, I've been told (by those same people) that javascript hides the text inside from SEs.

      Guess I've been told wrong. Thanks for setting me straight. This makes things much simpler.
      :-)
      You've definitely been mis-informed. The top SE's don't all index Javascript, but they can all easily read it. So attempting to cloak your content via Javascript is a bit risky from an SEO perspective, because search engines don't normally take too kindly to cloaked content!

      But as Will pointed out... duplicate content is only an issue if it's on the same site, so you've got nothing to worry about.
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  • Profile picture of the author mekdroid
    Actually that is a good idea ... there could be other uses for it. What you are describing is just a little utility that takes a piece of text/html and renders it using Javascript so that it is not seen by the search engines.
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